Ran into Alex Halderman recently. He casually said "we found a weakness in Diffie-Hellman." My jaw dropped. GO READ. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ …
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Good news, I guess: investment required for exploit is huge, so can only be done by states. Bad news: the weakness breaks forward secrecy.
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Q here isn't merely should NSA use such weaknesses. It is:"should NSA fix these weaknesses instead of using them"? "Who else is using them?"
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